Lewis Diuguid
- 1966
Fellowship Title:
- Chile and the Government of President Eduardo Frei
Fellowship Year:
- 1966
Freedom and the Revolution
LHD-7 Santiago, Chile September 5, 1966 Mr. Diuguid is a 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Washington Post. Permission to publish this article may be sought from the Foreign Editor, The Washington Post. The Christian Democrats, Party of the “Revolution in Liberty,” laid siege to the land with a spectacular display of political infighting last month. The harangues would have benumbed lesser folk, but the Chileans emerged with their appetite for such battle unimpaired. If political freedom Chile-style was vindicated at the four-day Party congress here, freedom of the press was being put to a sterner test in the south. The issue was government intervention, and the outlook was not as salutary. But more on that later. First an introduction to the political scene and a look at the Party congress: The Spectrum Chileans will play politics till the llamas come home. The activity is vigorous and pervasive. Confrontations of parties in the national parliament are acted out all down the chain of institutions — in labor unions,
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LHD- 6 Santiago, Chile August 10, 1966 Mr. Diuguid is a 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Washington Post. Permission to publish this article may be sought from the Foreign Editor, The Washington Post. All taken, it was a discouraging month among Chileans working for the Yankee dollar. First Senator Ernest Gruening released his case history on what was wrong with U.S. aid to Chile. Then Congress cut back foreign assistance generally, while the Agency for International Development made clear that less money would be coming to Santiago in any case. For a country that relies heavily on U.S. funds, Chile seemed to react with surprising equanimity. Perhaps it was just disinterest. After all, July was the month of the world soccer championships. Chile lost out in that one, too. And in the Andes above the capital, international ski trials began. Then there were such domestic diversions as fissures in the Socialist-Communist Front, brothel closings, an argument over the proper size of a loaf of bread, and finally the
Golpe de Argentina
LHD-5 Buenos Aires, Argentina July 5, 1966 Mr. Diuguid is a 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Washington Post. Permission to publish this article may be sought from the Foreign Editor, The Washington Post. Arturo Illia stood small in the center of the office that was as big, well, as big as a barracks. He picked up a handful of the evening press — the front pages choked with words like “Ultimatum” and “Military Demands” and the ever-increasing innuendo of “Golpe Imminent.” On that Friday, June 17, the Argentine President told me the headlines were baseless, no coup d’etat threatened. “Here we have complete freedom of the press,” he said, “and now we have some excesses that re endangering the nation.” Eleven days later, after the changing of the morning guard so that the presidential troops sworn to defend him would not be embarrassed, Illia was forced out of the pink-faced government house. The Casa Rosada had reason to blush. It was the seventh golpe de estado since
Men From Atacama
Mr. Diuguid is a 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Washington Post. Permission to publish this article may be sought from the Foreign Editor, The Washington Post. In the program to determine whether life, as they knew it, existed on Earth, the Martian scientists launched an interplanetary laboratory, which alighted, of all places, high on the Atacama Desert of Chile. The television camera rose and looked about without result; instruments responded with only a disappointing click or two for lack of water or pressure but tapped madly about the radiation and wind. The soil sampler crabbed across the volcanic dust, ingested a gram or two, and in the universal language of instruments and their makers it signaled home the results: Negative. The Mare men had no choice. By return beam they ordered the laboratory to decontaminate. And even today a pile of antiseptic ash marks the site. Two scientists from Pasadena’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory lived the last month on that same desert after a similar flight of fancy of their
A Year After Camelot
LHD-3 Santiago, Chile May 7, 1966 Mr. Diuguid is a 1965 Alicia Patterson Fund fellowship award winner on leave from The Washington Post. Permission to publish this article may be sought from the Foreign Editor, The Washington Post. “We always thought it was a good thing for trained Americans to come here,” said the Chilean sociologist. “But since Camelot we are very careful. There is a new awareness.” He looked tired somehow, and he sighed. It had been a long year. The sociologist’s reaction represents one long-term effect of the Camelot affair. A compatriot put it more harshly: “We were naive. We lost our virginity.” One year after the rape the U.S. social science community does not seem to have been chastened, nor has the Chilean counterpart replaced its loss with wisdom. Twelve months ago a Chilean-born U.S. professor arrived in Santiago and began to lift the flap on the briefcase Camelot. Within two months the intellectual city was rent and the nation’s relations with the United States had been strained by the revelation